After receiving some scary outcomes from an MRI final week, Trent Johnston continues to bear medical exams and meets with a watch physician within the new episode of TLC’s 7 Little Johnstons.
In a clip shared solely with PEOPLE forward of the episode on Tuesday, Feb. 4, Trent, 48, meets with ophthalmologist Dr. Hinson, who after an examination, diagnoses Trent with Keratoconus, which he describes as an “irregularity on the cornea.”
“Principally there is a weakened spot within the cornea and it is inflicting … the entrance floor of his eye to be actually irregular formed,” Hinson explains as he and Trent overview his check outcomes.
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As Trent sits within the examination room with Dr. Hinson, he learns the situation’s influence has made his eyes “nearly like a balloon. And when you take a balloon and type of push on it, the way it’ll pooch out in an space, that is mainly what you’ve got obtained there, simply type of pushing out, inflicting your imaginative and prescient to be very distorted, and it causes it to the place glasses actually aren’t the most suitable choice for you — so far as getting you seeing the very best that we will.”
Displaying Trent scans of his eye, he’s explains how this “can positively be inflicting distortion in your imaginative and prescient.”
The session, Trent says, is “the very first time I’ve had a physician inform me about my astigmatism, and the way unhealthy it’s, and that it is probably not inflicting my vertigo or a few of my eye motion issues.”
“However both method, it isn’t good for me. It isn’t good for my eyes, it isn’t good for my imaginative and prescient. And it must be corrected.”
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Astigmatism, the Mayo Clinic explains, is an imperfection within the curvature within the eye the place the attention is “egg-shaped” and causes blurred or distorted imaginative and prescient.
Dr. Hinson explains to Trent — who wears glasses — {that a} swap to onerous contact lenses can be a greater possibility that may get him “seeing the clearest.”
“What a tough contact does, it truly sits on this space proper right here, and it artificially makes your eye a traditional form, like a wonderfully spherical eyeball,” he says. If the situation continues to worsen even after utilizing “inflexible, fuel permeable contact lenses,” the Mayo Clinic explains {that a} cornea transplant could also be required.
When informed he would want the onerous contact lenses, Trent admitted, “The onerous contact lens, once I first hear that, I am like, ‘Ugh.’ I do not like anyone touching my eyes or doing something.”
“However at this level,” Trent says, holding his fists up in victory, “I am able to deal with it and able to get it mounted.”
7 Little Johnstons airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on TLC.
